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Mitzvah Kidz spread message among the small ones
Last week Friday, the Lubavitch Foundation together with Chabad House in Johannesburg, launched Mitzvah Kidz, an initiative to educate and inspire young children to feel passionate about doing mitzvoth.
BRIGITTE YOUNGWORTH
PHOTOGRAPH: MICHELLE VINOKUR
Pictured Torah Academy grade 11 learners Mushka Liberow and Rivky Klein, with Shayna Joffe; Ariela Favis; and Liorah Schneid from Minnie Bersohn Nursery School.
The Mitzvah Kidz launch was the first in a series of exciting Mitzvah Kidz programmes organised by Mashi Lipskar, Gabriella Mendelsohn and Simcha Youngworth.
The Mitzvah Kidz campaign was taken into nursery and primary schools around the country. Twelve nursery and pre-primary schools in Gauteng were visited by young high school learners and university students, who performed a play about Shabbat and handed out Little Miss Mitzvah and Little Mister Mitzvah books.
They also gave each little girl a Shabbat candlestick and each little boy a Kiddush cup. The actors dressed in bright orange Mitzvah Kidz attire, were enthusiastically received by all those present.
The Mitzvah Kidz campaign was initiated in response to the tragic number of sick children within the Jewish community, in the hope that getting other children and their families to do a mitzvah, will bring more light and healing to the world.